Happens to me all the time. "Why did you drag home that junk? You PAID for that pile of rust?!?" Every piece of farm equipment on the place had to be fixed in some fashion before it could be used. None of it is completely fixed as I'd like to see it, yet - it's just "usable", with a bunch of works in progress (as time and money permit). There's a reason farm equipment from 5-7 decades ago is still around (and used on our place) - it was built to last, and fixing it, however expensive in parts and time (even if I have to make the parts myself), is still better to my mind than some newer stuff designed to be thrown away.
I guess I see the potential still left in things and take some perverse pleasure in the challenge of making it good again, rather than letting something that "could be fixed" (regardless of the expense) go to the junk yard. My parents and grandparents may have had something to do with it, for whom "make it last, make it do, wear it out, use it up" was a way of life. It seems to have rubbed off.
:shock: Hang on - the wife wants to throw out my old work boots with the blown out sides (not good for wet weather, which we've had in abundance this year so far), but as I see it there still a little wear left in 'em... But just to show I have some sense as to when something has reached the end of it's useful life, I've agreed to let them go. It might make her feel better about the IH #200 spreader in pieces in front of the woodshed that needs "a little new metal". She says "scrap it". I say I'm gonna fix it.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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